Ahead of Tripura Assembly polls, former TMC president joins BJP today

By  Firstdespatch Desk   Jan 27, 2023

Agartala, Jan 27 (FD) Former President of the Tripura unit of Trinamool Congress (TMC), Subal Bhaumick today joined BJP in Delhi, party sources said.

He was earlier the Vice-president of the saffron party, who later joined Congress before the general elections and then to TMC, party spokesman Sunit Sarkar said.

He joined the Trinamool in the late nineties but then returned to Congress and became MLA from Sonamura in 2008 on Congress ticket.

Having lost the assembly election in 2013 he had formed his own party the ‘Tripura Gramin Vikash Congress’ and merged it with BJP where he had developed differences with former chief minister Biplab Kumar Deb after being defeated from the assembly election once again from Sonamura in 2018.

Sarkar said his return to the party was a major gain for the party before the elections. FD JK